Cadenza
Avoidance of love is a sign
of love’s power If I were to say
“I would like very much” I’d be skittering
from the edge of love’s vortex You know
there are plenty of reasons love may
not last With bow to the strings
now tell me now tell me now tell me
© Claudia Gary
Claudia Gary teaches workshops on Villanelle, Sonnet, Meter, Poetry vs. Trauma, etc., at The Writer’s Center (writer.org) and privately, currently via Zoom. Author of Humor Me (2006) and chapbooks including Genetic Revisionism (2019), she is also a health/science writer, visual artist, composer, and an advisory editor of New Verse Review. Her 2022 article on setting poems to music is online at https://straightlabyrinth.info/conference.html. See pw.org/content/claudia_gary
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